Schweden Spielkarten
54 different souvenir views of famous people and places in Sweden.
As souvenir packs go, this is one of the more attractive ones. It manages to combine people and places, castles and costumes, crafts and customs, landscapes and leisure activities into one cohesive whole, making Sweden look like a very fascinating place to visit. All the photographic images are in vertical format and each carries a title at the foot. The Swedish flag appears on one of the Jokers, while the back design is made up of a pattern of crowns in the national colours. The pack may well have been aimed at German visitors to Sweden. See the box►
Above: Schweden Spielkarten published by Edition moses Verlags GmbH, Kempen, Germany, 1994. Printer unknown (possibly Carta Mundi). 52 cards + 2 Jokers + 1 title card in tuck box. Size: 63 x 88 mm. © Edition moses Verlags GmbH, 1994.
The back design is reproduced on the back of the box.
By Roddy Somerville
Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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